Definition of present

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Present (n.) Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present..

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Reichstag :: Reichstag (n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath..
Support :: Support (v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear..
Foreground :: Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6..
Profess :: Profess (v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of..
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Nudity :: Nudity (n.) That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense..
Obstructive :: Obstructive (a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Phthalein :: Phthalein (n.) One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well represented by phenol phthalein. Their alkaline solutions are fluorescent..
Literalism :: Literalism (n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization..
Tetrahedrite :: Tetrahedrite (n.) A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase..
Impersonification :: Impersonification (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
Showing :: Showing (n.) Presentation of facts; statement.
Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon..
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx..
Present :: Present (a.) Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present..
Ecce Homo :: Ecce homo () A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns..
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
Are :: Are () The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as..
Thoth :: Thoth (n.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb..
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